{"id":81036,"date":"2018-07-30T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/elon-musk-just-debuted-an-eco-friendly-tesla-model-3-fast-delivery-system"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:11:45","slug":"elon-musk-just-debuted-an-eco-friendly-tesla-model-3-fast-delivery-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/elon-musk-just-debuted-an-eco-friendly-tesla-model-3-fast-delivery-system","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Just Debuted an Eco-Friendly Tesla Model 3 Fast Delivery System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-just-debuted-an-eco-friendly-tesla-model-3-fast-delivery-system.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla is cutting back on plastic with its new car delivery system. On Monday, CEO Elon Musk shared the story of how he personally delivered a Tesla Model 3 to Devin Scott in Los Angeles, using a new method where instead of arriving in plastic wrap, the car is delivered with an enclosed trailer directly from factory to home.<\/p>\n<p>The new method is a marked change from the previous process, where several cars would ship out on a truck to a delivery hub and move out later. It means less packaging, and potentially fewer steps in getting some of the approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/46592-musk-claims-telsa-exceeded-model-3-goal\">7,000 cars produced per week<\/a> into the hands of buyers. Tesla produces around seven times more cars per week than it did when the Model 3 first started production a year ago, and this rapid expansion has led to big changes in the company\u2019s processes to fulfill the 400,000 or so $1,000 reservations for the Model 3. In a March 2017 earnings call, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/03\/17\/tesla-model-3-delivery-process-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said his goal<\/a> was to make deliveries \u201cmore streamlined, less paperwork, less bureaucracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/47554-elon-musk-just-debuted-an-eco-friendly-tesla-model-3-fast-delivery-system\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/47554-elon-musk-just-debuted...ery-system<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla is cutting back on plastic with its new car delivery system. On Monday, CEO Elon Musk shared the story of how he personally delivered a Tesla Model 3 to Devin Scott in Los Angeles, using a new method where instead of arriving in plastic wrap, the car is delivered with an enclosed trailer directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81133,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81036\/revisions\/81133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}